Re: abuse@ihug.co.nz (was Re: The end of the NT OEM debate.)

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From: Simon Lyall
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:00

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In ihug.general James <smithies@ihug.co.nzZZZ> wrote:
> But won't there also be bulk e-mail software that will just snip ".invalid"
> off the end, to get a valid e-mail address instead?

No, you do not just have to put invalid on your normal address, you can
make your address anything as long as it ends in ".invalid"

So my home address can be written as:

simon@darkmere.gen.nz.invalid
simon@darkmere.invalid
nobody@nowhere.invalid

The idea with ".invalid" is that nobody will ever use it in real life (not
like nobody.co.nz or spam.com ) and that your can build things into your
software so that if you start to email an address like that it will bring
up and error straight away.

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From: Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz.invalid>
Subject: Re: abuse@ihug.co.nz (was Re: The end of the NT OEM debate.)
Date: 1999/06/26
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